Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.